Permission error when trying to pass Content Uri from activity to service

Question

I have an activity which accepts android.intent.action.SEND.
It accepts some media files and texts.
As it accepts a new 'share' it does some validation checks and pass the Uri to a service, it looks like this:

Uri uri = intent.getParcelableExtra(Intent.EXTRA_STREAM);
Intent serviceIntent = new Intent(this, ShareService.class)
        .setData(uri)
        .addFlags(Intent.FLAG_GRANT_READ_URI_PERMISSION) // probably redundant but harmless here       
        .putParcelableArrayListExtra(Constants.EXTRA_SHARE_FILES, uris)
startService(serviceIntent);

It works for all file providers and usually for content as well, but from time to time I get reports of failures:

Non-fatal Exception: java.lang.SecurityException: UID 10283 does not have permission to content://com.whatsapp.provider.media/item/33560 [user 0]

Is there anything I can do to keep the Uri permission alive? how should I handle this kind of Uri?

Answer 1

please create xml folder in your app and in xml mentioned file provider file and network security configure file after that declare fileprovider in AndroidMenifest.xml file